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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Aumerle cry when he said goodbye to Bolingbroke?
(a) Knowing his cousin's father would soon die.
(b) Seeing his cousin banished from England.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The wind.

2. "What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove." Who says this?
(a) Mowbray.
(b) Gaunt.
(c) Richard.
(d) Bolingbroke.

3. Of which quality of Bolingbroke does Richard worry?
(a) His intelligence often outsmarted Richard in their youth.
(b) Bolingbroke is always able to persuade people to take his side.
(c) He is gracious to and loved by the common people.
(d) Bolingbroke is much stronger than Richard.

4. Why is Richard confused about Gaunt's reaction towards Bolingbroke's sentence?
(a) Gaunt usually does not react so emotionally.
(b) Gaunt took part in the verdict decision making.
(c) Richard thought Gaunt was dying, and everyone else was laughing.
(d) Gaunt told Richard that Bolingbroke had threatened him, and he wanted him exiled.

5. What does York warn Gaunt in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) That Mowbray is going to try to kill him.
(b) That his wife is going to leave him.
(c) That Richard will ignore him.
(d) That Bolingbroke is confronting very harsh conditions in his exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final line of Act 2, Scene 4?

2. What does Bushy do for the Queen in Act 2, Scene 2?

3. Who is Gaunt alluding to have killed the Duke of Gloucester as he speaks alone with the Duchess?

4. What does Northumberland then confide to Ross and Willoughby in Act 2, Scene 1?

5. What do Bolingbroke and Mowbray accuse one another of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Act 3, Scene 3 end?

2. How is Richard comforted in Act 3, Scene 2?

3. Describe what happens right before the duel between Mowbray and Bolingbroke is to begin.

4. How does Richard ultimately respond to the conflict of Act 1, Scene 1?

5. What is the overall mood of Act 2, Scene 2?

6. Summarize Bushy and Greens' final moments.

7. What does the Queen learn while eavesdropping?

8. What does Bushy announce in Act 1, Scene 4 and how does Richard react?

9. Summarize Gaunt's conversation with Richard before he dies.

10. What happens at the end of Act 5, Scene 1? What does this say of York?

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